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I wrote the wrong thing in a commit message.
How can I change the message? The commit has not been pushed yet.
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If you don't want to rewrite the entire commit message, go for git commit --amend -c HEAD . This will open the editor pre-populated with your old commit message, so you can change it.
Changing the Last Commit: git commit --amend. The git commit --amend command is a convenient way to modify the most recent commit. It lets you combine staged changes with the previous commit instead of creating an entirely new commit.
It is recommended not to use amend if you have already pushed the changes to remote and other developers have already started using those changes.
git commit --amend will open your editor, allowing you to change the commit message of the most recent commit. Additionally, you can set the commit message directly in the command line with:
git commit --amend -m "New commit message" …however, this can make multi-line commit messages or small corrections more cumbersome to enter.
Make sure you don't have any working copy changes staged before doing this or they will get committed too. (Unstaged changes will not get committed.)
If you've already pushed your commit up to your remote branch, then - after amending your commit locally (as described above) - you'll also need to force push the commit with:
git push <remote> <branch> --force # Or git push <remote> <branch> -f Warning: force-pushing will overwrite the remote branch with the state of your local one. If there are commits on the remote branch that you don't have in your local branch, you will lose those commits.
Warning: be cautious about amending commits that you have already shared with other people. Amending commits essentially rewrites them to have different SHA IDs, which poses a problem if other people have copies of the old commit that you've rewritten. Anyone who has a copy of the old commit will need to synchronize their work with your newly re-written commit, which can sometimes be difficult, so make sure you coordinate with others when attempting to rewrite shared commit history, or just avoid rewriting shared commits altogether.
Another option is to use interactive rebase. This allows you to edit any message you want to update even if it's not the latest message.
In order to do a Git squash, follow these steps:
// n is the number of commits up to the last commit you want to be able to edit git rebase -i HEAD~n Once you squash your commits - choose the e/r for editing the message:
When you use git rebase -i HEAD~n there can be more than n commits. Git will "collect" all the commits in the last n commits, and if there was a merge somewhere in between that range you will see all the commits as well, so the outcome will be n + .
If you have to do it for more than a single branch and you might face conflicts when amending the content, set up git rerere and let Git resolve those conflicts automatically for you.
git-commit(1) Manual Page
git-rebase(1) Manual Page
git-push(1) Manual Page
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